Summary
Tories who maintain their own Republican contacts are in no doubt about the scale of the crisis. 'Personal loyalty matters to President Bush above all other things, even party politics,' says one senior Tory MP, well connected in Washington. 'That's how he works, that's his foreign policy and it has served him well. So he takes loyalty very seriously.
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Why Bush Won't Back Howard
When George W. Bush arrives for his European visit next week, a special ceremony will be laid on in Brussels: the discreet burial of hatchets. Dinner with Jacques Chirac will start the rapprochement with Old Europe while other leaders wait in line, olive branch in hand. But there's one politician the American President certainly won't be meeting: Michael Howard. Even if the Conservative leader was at the European Union summit, he's unlikely to have been granted an audience; he languishes, unforgiven, in a special kind of purgat...
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